LETTERS / A Time for Renewal NASSAU AND SUFFOLK Edition

On Sept. 11, 2001, as I drove onto the Loop Parkway for my daily early-morning commute to work, I looked over my left shoulder to catch a glimpse of the World Trade Center. It was a ritual I had repeated every morning for many years. Some mornings, the Statue of Liberty was also within my view. That...

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Published inNewsday
Main Author Mark Palasek, Mindy Ferrentino, David V. Huschle
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 13.09.2002
EditionCombined editions
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Summary:On Sept. 11, 2001, as I drove onto the Loop Parkway for my daily early-morning commute to work, I looked over my left shoulder to catch a glimpse of the World Trade Center. It was a ritual I had repeated every morning for many years. Some mornings, the Statue of Liberty was also within my view. That afternoon, as I headed home following the most tragic day in our country's history, I looked to the right as I exited the Loop Parkway. The glorious Towers had been replaced by billowing, putrid smoke. This morning, as I have continued to do for the past year, I again looked over my left shoulder as I entered the Loop Parkway. The sky in the distance is empty now, yet I cannot stop myself from searching for the Towers. It is a fantasy that always ends in heartache. Throughout the globe, both sides in World War II overcame their grief as city after city was reduced to rubble. If Britain, Poland and Russia followed [Rudolph Giuliani]'s gutless idea, there would be no London, Warsaw or Stalingrad today. Nor would there be a Berlin, Hiroshima, Nagasaki or Tokyo.